[Rarebooks] FS: George Bernard Shaw Signed Manuscript on General Maurice's Defiance of Lloyd George, 1918

[Charles Agvent]

One of a number of important manuscripts, letters, and inscribed association 
copies of first editions by George Bernard Shaw in our latest list to be posted 
on our website on Friday:  George Bernard Shaw: 131 items

SHAW,  G[eorge] Bernard. TYPED MANUSCRIPT SIGNED  (TMS):  GENERAL
MAURICE'S  ALLEGED  BREACH OF DISCIPLINE. To the Editor of  The  Daily
Chronicle.  19  May 1918. A fine 3-1/2-page typed manuscript on  green
paper  SIGNED  at  the conclusion "G. Bernard Shaw" and  with  several
holograph  corrections  by Shaw, tipped to quarto-sized pages bound  in
marbled  boards  and blue morocco spine with a TYPED LETTER SIGNED  by
Robert  Donald  of  THE DAILY CHRONICLE dated 21  May  1918  declining
publication  of  Shaw's  letter because General Maurice  "is  terribly
afraid  of being penalised" and "is desperately anxious to maintain an
ultra-correct  attitude."  In  small  part:  "The  generals  who  were
accused  last  year of writing ridiculous letters may be accused  this
year  of  taking  bribes, of taking morphia, of taking six  wives,  of
taking  holidays  during  offensives,  of taking to  their  heels,  of
taking   fire  by  spontaneous   combustion  and  being   ignominously
extinguished  by  the killfires of their chauffeurs, or, worse  still,
of  any  of these subtler deviations from the path of honor  and  duty
which  might  conceivably  be made by a good man under the  strain  of
war."  In April 1918 Prime Minister David Lloyd George told Parliament
that  the British Army in France was considerably stronger than it had
been  a  year ago. Maurice, whose job it was to keep accurate  figures
of  British military strength, knew that Lloyd George gave  misleading
information,  and  not  receiving any satisfaction  by  going  through
official  channels,  published a letter in the papers  exposing  Lloyd
George's  lies. As a result Maurice was retired from the British Army.
With  the bookplate of Harold Ackert on the front pastedown. Very Good
in an attractive Very Good binding.                           $3500.00

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